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Globalization and contemporary art / edited by Jonathan Harris.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.Edition: 1. publDescription: XVII, 534 S. : IllISBN:
  • 1405179503
  • 1405179511
  • 9781405179508
  • 9781405179515
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 701.03 HAR
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 701.03 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100463596

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art is the first anthology to consider the role and impact of art and artist in an increasingly borderless world.

First major anthology of essays concerned with the impact of globalization on contemporary art Extensive bibliography and a full index designed to enable the reader to broaden knowledge of art and its relationship to globalization Unique analysis of the contemporary art market and its operation in a globalized economy

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Globalization and Contemporary Art: A Convergence of Peoples and Ideas
  • Part 1 Institutions
  • Introduction
  • 1 Real Time and Real Time at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 2 Peddling Time When Standing Still: Art Remains in Lebanon and the Globalization That Was
  • 3 Homogeneity or Individuation? A Long View of the Critical Paradox of Contemporary Art in a Stateless Nation
  • 4 Museums in the Colonial Horizon of Modernity: Fred Wilson's Mining the Museum (1992)
  • 5 Africus Johannesburg Biennale 1995: Butisi Tart?
  • Part 2 Formations
  • Introduction
  • 6 Post-Crisis: Scenes of Cultural Change in Buenos Aires
  • 7 Evolution within the Revolution: The Afro-Cuban Cultural Movement and Cuban Art Collectives, 1975 to 2000
  • 8 Ka Muhe'e, He i'a Hololua: Kanaka Maoli Art and the Challenge of the Global Market
  • 9 Aboriginal Cosmopolitans: A Prehistory of Western Desert Painting
  • 10 Working to Learn Together: Failure as Tactic
  • Part 3 Means and Forces of Production
  • Introduction
  • 11 The Two Economies of World Art
  • 12 The Spectacle and Its Others: Labor, Conflict, and Art in the Age of Global Capital
  • 13 Cultural Mercantilism: Modernism's Means of Production: The Gutai Group as Case Study
  • 14 Audiovisionaries of the Network Planet
  • Part 4 Identifications
  • Introduction
  • 15 Contemporary Asian Art and the West
  • 16 World Pictures: Globalization and Visual Culture
  • 17 Leaves of Grass and Real Allegory: A Case Study of International Rebellion
  • 18 Collaboration in Art and Society: A Global Pursuit of Democratic Dialogue
  • Part 5 Forms
  • Introduction
  • 19 Globalization Questions and Contemporary Art's Answers: Art in Palestine
  • 20 Political Islam and the Time of Contemporary Art
  • 21 Displaced Models: Techniques and Tactics of Reproduction across the Genres and Institutions of Western Art from Duchamp to Doujak
  • 22 White Man Got No Dreaming: Indigenous Art, Apartheid and the Emergence of "Global Style" Painting in Australia
  • 23 The Discourse of (L)imitation: A Case Study with Hole-Digging in 1960s Japan
  • Part 6 Reproduction
  • Introduction
  • 24 Art and Postcolonial Society
  • 25 Why Art History is Global
  • 26 The Agency of the Historian in the Construction of National Identity in Colombian Architecture
  • 27 Aboriginal Art and Australian Modernism: An Althusserian Critique
  • 28 Gesturing No(w)here
  • Part 7 Organization
  • Introduction
  • 29 The Emergence of Powerhouse Dealers in Contemporary Art
  • 30 The Art Market in Transition, the Global Economic Crisis, and the Rise of Asia
  • 31 Global Contemporary? The Global Horizon of Art Events
  • 32 "Institutionalized Globalization," Contemporary Art, and the Corporate Gulag in Chile
  • 33 Culture, Neoliberal Development, and the Future of Progressive Politics in Southeastern Europe
  • Select Bibliography
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jonathan Harris is Professor of Global Art & Design Studies for the Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton. He has published widely on contemporary art history and theory, and is a successful textbook author. His works include The New Art History: A Critical Introduction (2001) and Art History: The Key Concepts (2006).

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